Lamb

A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature, in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson. With Noomi Rapace. “Darkly imaginative and brought to life by a pair of striking … Read more

Saving Private Ryan

Join us on Thursday, November 11 – Remembrance Day – for a daytime screening of Steven Spielberg‘s epic World War Two film, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. As much as Remembrance Day is centred upon the Armistice achieved on the Western Front on November 11, 1918, when it comes to our audiences’ requests for a film to … Read more

Titane

Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys, often used inmedical prostheses due to its pronounced biocompatibility. French filmmaker Julia Decournau (whose upcoming film ALPHA received a “thunderous” 12 minute standing ovation at this year’s Cannes Film Festival) became only the second female director to take home the prestigious … Read more

The Green Knight

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, THE GREEN KNIGHT tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers … Read more

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Werner Herzog’s only horror film is as rich with artistry and tragedy as his most grounded, human work. It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly-kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz, DOWNFALL; WINGS OF DESIRE) is leaving on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. … Read more

Wife of a Spy

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (PULSE, CURE, TOKYO SONATA) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, … Read more

Labyrinth of Cinema

The final film by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (the prolific cult filmmaker behind the legendary, experimental 1977 offering HAUSU) finds the late director returning to the subject of Japan’s history of warfare following the completion of his “War Trilogy,” which ended with HANAGATAMI. On the last night of its existence, a small movie theater in Onomichi—the seaside town … Read more

VIFF 2021: Passing

The Jazz Age. Irene (Tessa Thompson) is surprised to bump into Clare (Ruth Negga), an old childhood friend, in downtown Manhattan. While Irene is living relatively comfortably married to a Harlem doctor (André Holland), glamorous Clare is living the high life. Her husband (Alexander Skarsgård) is a wealthy businessman, and white. He believes she is … Read more

System Entertainment Presents: Toma

The film TOMA is an impressionistic portrait of the famous singer Toma Zdravković, which shows his beginnings, but also the high points of his fame, as well as his great loves, which have inspired him to write some of his greatest hits, as well as the friendships he had with many participants of the artistic … Read more

Fever Dream (Premiere! Presented with the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival)

Join us at the Rio Theatre on Tuesday, October 13 for the Premiere of Peruvian director Claudia Llosa‘s (THE MILK OF SORROW, 2009 Oscar-nominee) latest film, FEVER DREAM, an adaptation of Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin’s celebrated 2014 psychological thriller “Distancia de rescate.” Co-written by Llosa and Schweiblin, the film follows the hazy story of a … Read more